
About these documents
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These documents are generated from reStructuredText sources by Sphinx,
a document processor specifically written for the Python
documentation.

Development of the documentation and its toolchain takes place on the
docs@python.org mailing list.  We're always looking for volunteers
wanting to help with the docs, so feel free to send a mail there!

Many thanks go to:

* Fred L. Drake, Jr., the creator of the original Python documentation
  toolset and writer of much of the content;

* the Docutils project for creating reStructuredText and the Docutils
  suite;

* Fredrik Lundh for his Alternative Python Reference project from
  which Sphinx got many good ideas.

See *Reporting Bugs* for information how to report bugs in this
documentation, or Python itself.


Contributors to the Python Documentation
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Many people have contributed to the Python language, the Python
standard library, and the Python documentation.  See Misc/ACKS in the
Python source distribution for a partial list of contributors.

It is only with the input and contributions of the Python community
that Python has such wonderful documentation -- Thank You!
